Portable bedstead



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SIMON WILLARD, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO.

PORTABLE BEDSTEAD.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 11,398, dated July 25, 1854.

`To all 'whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, SIMON VILLAnmbf Cincinnati, Hamilton countyOhio, have 1n- Vented new and useful Improvements in` Bedsteads; and I do hereby declare thefollowing to be a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part Ofthis speci ication.

The Objects chiefly aimed at in my invention are, firstly, extreme lightness and portability, so much so that in case of fire or removal, the entire bedstead can be taken to pieces in a few seconds, and packed away stretcher.

in a very small and convenient compass; secondly, cleanliness, and freedom from vermin; all the parts where vermin customarily settle, being of iron or other metal, and affording no chinks or crevices tc which `a bug can retreat; thirdly, its convertibilityV into diiierent forms of bedstead.

In the annexed drawings Figure 1 `is a perspective view of my bedstead. d Fig. 2 represents in detail the devices for connecting together the rails by meansof the rod. Fig. 3 exhibits the under side of the this plan.` i

(a) is the headboard and rail formed of one sheet of metal-(b) s the foot board and rail, also of one piece-(0) are the side rails-also formed of sheet metal. Each of t these sheets or rails is bent at the ends into a tubular form so as to serve as sockets (el) through which rods (6) beinginserted, the four rails are thereby attached securely together and at thesame time are supported at the right distance from the floor by means of collars (Z)\upon the rods.

The bedstead is held to its proper quadrangular form by the following means `z Each of the rails, has, projecting inward Fig. 4 is a French bedstead `0n` from its lower edge, a ange (f) pierced with apertures (g). These flanges give support to a stretcher or bottom plate (71,) composed of a pair of leaves of sheet metal hinged together as shown. This stretcher is provided underneath near its margin, with studs er pins (i), which occupying the apertures (g) before alluded to, serve the purpose of holding the rails to a rectangular position and also afford a support to the bedding. The rods (e) being extended downward, may occupy boot casters (le). The sockets of the head and foot rails also serve te receive and hold the rods (m) of a tester frame This tester frame and the supporting rods being left off you have a French or cottage bedstead.

This in commen with other iron bedsteads, `possesses the advantages of great durability, compactness, and susceptibility of a great variety of shape and decoration.

What I claim as `my `invention and desire to secureby Letters Patent, isi My improved bedstead, constructed substantially in the manner` herein described,

`viz: of sheet metal side and end pieces (a,

b, c) which are bent `at their ends so as to form sockets for the reception of the sustaining and uniting posts, (6,) and provided with inward flanches f, at their lower edges,

for the reception of the'hinged bottom plate SIMON WILLARD.

VVitnesses:`

GEO. II. KNIGHT, CHARLES F. WILLARD. 

